Toolglass & Magic Lenses: The See-Through Interface

In current interfaces, users select objects, apply operations and change viewing parameters in distinct in distinct steps that require switching attention among several screen areas. Our See-Though Interface system addres this problem by locating tools on a transparent sheet that can be moved over applications with one hand using a trackball, while the other hand controls a mouse cursor.The user clicks through a tool onto application objects, simultaneously selecting an operation and an operand. Tools may include graphical filters, caled Magic Lens filters, that display a customized view of application objects

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• multi-touch
• PARC
• xerox
• parc
• click-through
• HCI
• bimanual
• interction

[Laemeur]

Excellent video. As usual, the folks at PARC are implementing ideas here that still have failed to enter the mainstream 14 years later. The two-handed, Tool Glass approach would be enormously helpful in so many applications, graphics particularly -- I'm irritated that these concepts haven't made it onto my desktop yet.

[madenosine]

Thanks for uploading! Very helpful

[sirerebos1]

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